Brian Kilmeade Fact Checks Trump’s Claim About Mueller Questions: ‘To Say There’s No Collusion is Not Right’
Fox & Friends reacted on Wednesday to special counsel Robert Mueller’s questions for President Donald Trump, and host Brian Kilmeade rebutted the president’s claims that there are no questions about possible collusion with Russia.
The questions from Mueller — which according to the New York Times were compiled into a list by Trump’s legal team but leaked by someone outside of it — include a number of questions relating to possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, despite the president’s claims in a tweet:
So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were “leaked” to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see…you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 1, 2018
On Fox & Friends, Steve Doocy suggested the release of the special counsel’s questions gives the impression that “Mueller’s just out to get Trump” and that the president would “be crazy to sit down with him.”
“But I don’t know if you’d jump to that conclusion,” Kilmeade countered. “If the Trump team’s strategy was to leak this to the New York Times, I don’t understand the benefit. Because the questions don’t seem out of left field. They seem thorough and comprehensive, and a bunch of traps.”
“Nonetheless, when you look at all of the questions, and you’re going, wait, it looks like they are trying to prove obstruction of justice?” Doocy said. “So it’s hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened.”
“Where were all the questions about Russia?” Doocy asked, apparently missing all of the questions about Russia.
“But there [are] some collusion questions in there,” Kilmeade pointed out. “So to say there’s not collusion is not right.”
Watch above, via Fox News.
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